http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/ Engadget Comments for Swarm robotics project further ensures our doom http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://people.csail.mit.edu/jamesm/swarm.php#videos
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DEATH-MATCH! DEATH-MATCH!]]>May 15th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.robotliving.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics/]]>May 15th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/So they startle you with noise from the tiny speaker and then they take your picture and send it to youtube where you will be known as "the guy who is scared of small robots"

I'd rather take my chances with loud noise...]]>May 15th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/]]>May 15th 2008 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/06/gun_bot_1_4.jpg

and what the hell do you end up with??

The end of life as we know it, that's what.

Someday somebody's gonna combine a gunbot with swarm technology, self-preservation AI and the ability to self-replicate, and that'll be it. And all of those technologies exist individually already.
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http://people.csail.mit.edu/jamesm/swarm.php#videos]]>May 15th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/CONTROLLIN THEIR BRAINS]]>May 15th 2008 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 15th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/
I feel obligated to let you know that.]]>May 15th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/
1. These swarm-bots are pretty dumb. They had no cognitive abilities of any kind. They only group together, navigate, spread apart, and follow each other. "The Invasion" is still a long way off.

2. That gun bot would run out of ammo pretty quick. And don't say that it would make more.

3. No way is that gun bot going to be able to self-replicate. Did you see how complicated it was? And think about the equipment it would need to build another copy of itself. That would make it even more complicated. Yes, they have bots that self-replicate, but that's all they can do.

4. Explosives would destroy that robot beyond comprehension. They will destroy a tank and a humvee, they'll rip that bot to shreds.

5. Yes, all those technologies exist. But they can't necessarily be combined. See number 3 again.

6. Think about what would happen if that was possible. No more military! We could just send some mean killer robots into Iraq and blow the hell out of the terrorists. That is the world I someday want to live in!

7. Ever heard of a UAV? They have robotic planes that can deploy tactical missiles now, missiles that will land within inches of their ground targets. A gun bot is really not necessary.]]>May 15th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/
I hate it more when people are just plain wrong... The robots are coming to get us!]]>May 16th 2008 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 17th 2008 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/May 16th 2008 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/swarm-robotics-project-further-ensures-our-doom/
http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org/

The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (abbreviated SRVC) is a research competition that is designed to push the state of the art in image understanding and automatic acquisition of knowledge from large unstructured databases of images (such as those generally found on the web).

In this competition, fully autonomous robots receive a text list of objects that they are to find. They use the web to automatically find image examples of those objects in order to learn visual models. These visual models are then used to identify the objects in the robot's cameras. ]]>Jul 20th 2008 4:48AM